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Identity Management (IDM)

Today's enterprises are under tremendous pressure to solve security issues, improve efficiency, meet regulatory requirements and industrial compliance. Identity Management solution is a broad administrative area that deals with identifying individuals in a system and controlling their access to resources within that system through the association of user rights and restrictions with the established identity. With Identity Management solution, enterprises can manage the entire user identity life-cycle across all enterprise resources, both within and beyond the firewall. Identity Management solution is often designed with the following key principles:

• User Provisioning - having a centralized user provisioning & de-provisioning mechanism to handle user identity life-cycle across all the connected enterprise resources. A successful IDM implementation can greatly reduce administrative efforts, increase security and ensure identity data integrity
   
• Self service - delegated and empowered users to perform their own identity administrative duties such as password recovery, periodic password change, credential information update and etc, hence reduce the administrators & call-center burden
   
• Workflow - Integrating workflow processes into day-to-day operational duties for granting user rights, approval processes, enable and disable privileges & replace manual processes for resources access application give enterprises fine-grained control tailored to their business needs
   
• Identity Vault - identifying Source of Authority (SOA) and building a centralized identity vault for authentication & authorization purposes
   
• Auditing, Attestation & Reporting - provide audit trail and intelligent repository of information about the actual state and desired state of the identity vault and managed systems within an organization, predefined reports that can perform queries to demonstrate compliance for business, IT and corporate policies
   

Deploying Identity Management technology solution often meant complexity and high risk, in most time required the CIO special attention for decision making and justification. Enterprises who embark in IDM deployment are required, not only to select the best-fit technology but a reliable implementer that knows all the challenges in the solution sets to ensure its success. Xynapse has many years of experience in IDM solution implementation. Our solid methodologies and best practices allow any enterprise to deploy a clean, cost-effective and fully functional framework in those solution sets.

Monitoring, Audit Logging and Security Compliance (MASC)

In modern IT world, thousands and millions of transactions or systems events constantly flow through the enterprises network, introducing threat and risk that might cause huge financial losses for enterprises that lack of attention and awareness. Enterprises need sophisticated solution sets to safeguard their business by giving complete visibility into activity across the IT infrastructure, threat such as malware and hacker, internal threat such as data breaches and fraud, risk from application flaws and configuration changes, and compliance pressures from failed audits. Xynapse is fully aware of this security needs by providing the following services:

• Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) - SIEM helps you discover and mitigate security threats and vulnerabilities before they impact your core business. Enterprises require a solution that is capable of deciphering the volumes of data that systems generate, giving security intelligence, recognize new trends, attacks or violations to what and who level.
   
• Centralized Log Management - Application and system logs are typically everywhere, consume large storages, difficult to interpret and always view as "garbage". However, logs are yet so important whereby enterprises must archive and stored it properly for audit trail and regulatory compliances. With the increase security threat from internal and external sources, enterprises require a special solution that can centrally collect, analyze and interpret important logs information. 
   
• Enterprise Access Management - Vendors continue to broaden and incrementally fine-tune offering in this space (i.e. Web-enabled single sign-on, authentication, coarse-grained authorization and administration, roles-based access control, identity federation and etc). In recent years, economic and market forces have forced enterprises explore ways to reduce costs via data center and license consolidation. This has also forced enterprises to embrace cloud computing, either in the form of private or public clouds, to access new services at reduced costs. In this challenging environment, enterprises must develop a holistic and proactive strategy based on risk management principals. Today, many vendors offer access management solutions that go beyond access management basics providing analytics, dashboards, and forensic tools. A robust access management solution must provide security, flexible, scalable and simplified deployment. Beside, 3rd party integrations, monitoring and diagnostics and integrated user experience are some of the major factors that enterprises need to consider.
   

Endpoint to Servers Administration & Privileged User Management (EP & PUM)

Security and ease-of-use have traditionally existed as two contradicting disciplines, yet both play an important role in keeping users safe and productive. By eliminating the need for users to remember multiple passwords, smoothen & secure the backend servers accessibility and assign sufficient rights to privileged users like system administrators will greatly increase the security without jeopardizing efficiency and productivity. Enterprises need proper tools not just capable of handling single need but integrate well with other components to form a robust infrastructure to protect every single aspect yet convenient  enough to carry out its daily operation. 

• Enterprise Single Sign-on (ESSO) - Effectively reduces the number of password reset calls to the helpdesk, increase productivity and reduces costs through broad support for applications, web sites and terminal servers, as well as popular directories, platforms and clients. With the client-based flexibility of ESSO solution, enterprise can leverage their investments in existing systems and avoid expensive hardware and systems upgrades. ESSO can also be positioned as the security center where enterprises can centrally strengthen the application access by implementing more stringent password policy and multi-factor authentication.
   
• Privileged User Management (PUM) - Privileged accounts and password are extremely powerful, allowing a privileged user to login anonymously and have complete control of the target system with full access to all the information on that system. This vulnerability could potentially cause tremendous financial losses and reputational damage for businesses. PUM is a policy-based solution that secures, manages and logs all privileged accounts and activities. It provides control access to privileged accounts, manage application and services credentials, grant granular control to the commands superusers can run, audit tracking regulatory compliance and alerting mechanism by seamless integration with the enterprise systems.
   
• Active Directory & Enterprise Admin - Microsoft Active Directory is widely accepted as the network infrastructure to manage corporate identities, credentials, information, systems and application settings. With Active Directory services of Windows, enterprises can simplify users and resources management while creating scalable, secure and manageable infrastructure. A structured approach to Active Directory design is important to makes enterprise-scale directory services deployment straightforward and easy to understand. Active Directory consolidation, migration and re-architecture projects can be time consuming, resource intensive and potentially introduce vulnerable treat. Enterprises who embark on Active Directory projects required sophisticated tools to automate and repetitively carry out the tasks, while maintaining the users and businesses productivity and enforcing security policies
   
• Communication & Collaboration - Internet technology has been adopted as the primary technology in enterprises day-to-day operation. Today large scale communication & collaboration suites continue leveraging on internet technology to provide e-services that meet both the private and public services requirements. Architecting, deploying and maintaining this infrastructure is extremely crucial for enterprises to maintain businesses performance and impact to businesses reputation.
   

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